First afterschool

Lín Jìng takes a breath before continuing, but now she's trying to accompany her words with projected mental images - not to psychically coerce him, but rather to provide vivid illustrations that may be persuasive in their own right.

"I suggest that there are many perks you'd get from going along with my idea.

You'd get attention that is of the kind you'd appreciate, and not the kind you would rather avoid," she projects an image of Aono surrounded by his admirers during the orientation class, some of them brushing against him immodestly in the process.

"You'd no longer need to watch your step as much around bullies, as they'd like and tolerate you better," she projects images of Rikishi standing with Yasuo &co. during the confrontation, showing his insignificance there, followed by the scuffle that ensued.

"You'd get gifts and favours," she projects an image of a some pretty upperclassman from her school back home receiving sweets and valentines.

"Maybe some people would be willing to share some spicy secrets with you," she projects the image a bound professor in the forest that she accidentally picked from the witch's mind earlier that day.

"And maybe, if I'm impressed enough by your act, some of the things that right now are incorrect assumptions will become true," she projects the image her and Rikishi entering the little fitting room, and sounds of other people whispering 'Is that two of them going in? How scandalous!'.

"Maybe eventually the transformation would rub off on you and your own powers would improve, through daily exposure to and participation in my youki tricks. And perhaps by then you won't need me anymore. But until then, I'm fine with you enjoying all the perks, so long as I get the first dibs on the new you.

So what do you say? An alliance between leches?"

Lín Jìng would spend a lot of time explaining options, giving examples, rehearsing mannerisms and catchphrases, elaborating on the tropes, establishing pre-agreed signals, and so on. She would release some of the spells and use the time to recover some of her energy while helping Rikishi accessorise. Only once all the planning is over would the two search for an unoccupied study room in the academy library - to have enough space for conducting ritual casting, but no extraneous witnesses.

Lín Jìng nods along sympathetically as Rikishi goes through this part of the plan. "I was hoping to deal with just the appearance, but maybe I can split the spell into two smaller ones, and provide you a bit of charm too. I'm not going to enforce behaviour through magical compulsions though. I'll try to give hints when I think some course of action would be much better than others."
"Sure, if you want to try being like that, why not. Just make sure it's what you want to try being like out of the many options."
When Rikishi hints at such a dynamic between the two, Lín takes the first part in stride, but then stares in confusion at the second half. "I'm going to assume this is a misunderstanding and not you trying to deliberately do the opposite of what I asked. I said I am to be given the top spot on the list, not the bottom spot. If you're going to act rakishly towards everyone except me, that would be extremely disappointing," she tries to appear subtly menacing, but instead comes off as obviously frustrated and insecure. "I'm not sure exactly what shenanigans you'll be up to now that you have your new persona, but don't leave me out of it."

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